Noisy neighbours. We had them for years, garage music that sort of thing. And they were Palace supporters.
Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. I'd like to ban the parking restrictions that Greenwich Council have put on all the roads around the Valley I used to park up on Wolfe Crescent on a match day. Probably never be able to do that again.
I'd like to see a ban on high rise apartment blocks. Not really related to Charlton I accept, but in West London where I'm living they are a blight. Wherever they are built the surrounding roads suffer endless closures while they are dug up to lay all kinds of pipes. They ruin the skyline, and most are so poorly designed they get weathered and begin falling apart in just a few years. They are dangerous, even 7 years after Grenfell. They isolate and divide people, instead of fostering communities. We should be building more terraced houses (and semi-detached) each with a small garden. It is proven that living like this is better for people's mental health. And it does build communities like the ones we used to have until the 1960's when the first wave of tower blocks were built on the rubble of so-called "slum" neighbourhoods. Places where people had little in a material sense, but they took pride in where they lived and had self-respect. That image we have of housewives scrubbing the front doorsteps of their homes is not a joke. That's how it really was. The breakdown of local communities and the loss of self-respect among working class folk is at the very core of the decay and disintegration of our society. But of course nobody is listening.
Have you read a book called Good Nature? It details the well researched scientific evidence about the benefits of being close to nature. For instance people recovering from illness recover much quicker if they have access to a garden, or even a window with a view of a garden.
We should only be building high rise accommodation- otherwise the encroachment into nature will become absolute
Slow players on golf courses. At every level. Killed it for me when it took 3 hours and a quarter to play 10 holes. Used to be 3 hours to play 18. I saw The Great Arnold Palmer in 1962 win The Open at Troon when they played 2 rounds on the Saturday. When the USPGA was knockout they played two rounds every day for a week. .
Off topic but I was playing Lullingstone once when play was at a snail's pace, we were lounging around on the 10th tee when I found a 4leaf clover, the only time. It didn't bring any luck, play didn't speed up and I lost the match.
It was your Judge Dredd-like pronouncement’s on sentencing, having previously warned against any controversial stuff on this thread. I actually had you in mind when I created this thread , I knew you’d be in your element listing all the things you wanted to ban I’m surprised you haven’t got round to your wish to ban Habeas Corpus, followed by breathing and intercourse ….yet. You’d make the ideal, semi benevolent dictator of a small atoll in the Pacific.
You say the nicest things And the irony is that I wouldn't have posted any of the things I've said in this thread if you hadn't created it in the first place. I was quite content in my monk-like abstinence from political posting (news & current affairs) here over the past three months. And I thought that was the way you and other members preferred it. This thread has been a 'test' in some ways, a teasing little experiment to see how we would all react to a few ripples in the water. I think we've not done too badly. Going forward I believe it would be best to respect the advice of @Dick Plumb1 and try to keep matters on topic (CAFC and football principally) so I'll try to refrain from indulging in possibly controversial posts when something in the news catches my eye. The sentencing post was a slip by me I will admit. I had only just read a news report of the terrorist activities of that scumbag who attacked those poor kids. I was boiling mad. By now I ought to know better than to post when I'm very angry. So I'll say I intend to ban myself from political posting (again). It's for the best I think.
